one, for jerry brown's legacy. if he lost that, the rest of his governorship would have been, cut, cut, cut and he may well not have run for re-election because of that. instead, he has the wind at his back. and second, and i think this is most important, since 1998 in california, we have been talking about, the budget is broken, a structural deficit, california is greece, it can't get its house in order. the budget is now balance bbala. you can't even believe it. and yes, there are some problems here and there, but this is the closest we've been in 15 years. it's an amazing thing. >> belva: we have to turn to lisa, find out only of the things that happened locally. >> yes, yes. hundreds of local ballot measures on the big talk, even across the nation, was in richmond, where the very first national -- very first tax on the nation in soda, anti-obesity measure went down in flames. it fizzled big time. you know, 60%, 70% said no. richmond does not want to be singled out for the fat people's tax. they don't want it. o